Andrew Bynum Will Miss All Of Cleveland’s Preseason Games

Summary of 2 articles · Updated Sep 18, 2013

One source familiar with Bynum’s progress told Fox Sports Ohio that Bynum is nowhere near ready and is likely to miss the entire preseason. Andrew Bynum's story might sound the same, but it isn't necessarily. This is awful news for Andrew Bynum, and we’re… (more) only going to lightly touch on our earlier prognosis about Cleveland’s future with him in a starring role, but nobody wants to see a player miss extended time. Just two weeks ago, we discussed Bynum's reported focus on returning and the "fluid process" of getting him back on the court. So maybe Bynum will give it a go in the opener against the Nets, and maybe Kevin Garnett and Brook Lopez will make his knee look a lot worse than reality, but it’s hard not to think of the worst case scenario if you’re a Cavs fan. If he could, though, he'd give former and future head coach Mike Brown a low-post weapon and rim protector to bolster the Cavs' chances of making the playoffs for the first time since LeBron James flew south, and Brown, general manager Chris Grant and the rest of Cleveland's brain trust were willing to be patient in the pursuit of that latter possibility. We expected this. We wrote this. This is also 26-year-old with so much wrong in his knobbly knees they’ve inherited a Bogeyman distinction in Orthopedic schools across the country as various knee specialists treat his return to health like Ahab did the White Whale.

Andrew Bynum might not be ready to play any time soon, and the Cavaliers seem fine with that

The Cleveland Cavaliers made sure to hedge heavily in signing free-agent center Andrew Bynum, offering the All-Star-turned-fractured fairy tale a two-year, $24.8 million deal with just $6 million of the first year's salary fully guaranteed. The remainde…